Sophie Amundsen, a 14 year old, after school receives one
anonymous question on her mail box. The question said "Who are you?"
Sophie went upstairs after reading this question and start thinking who was
she, her physical appearance or her personality. After a while Sophie goes to
the mail box and finds another question, "Where does the world come
from?" As a religious person she believed that God was the creator but she
was more into the philosophical world so she started questioning. The same day
she receives another question wishing her happy birthday from the Lebanon, she
got confused because was from Hilde's father. She didn't tell anyone about the
letters because she didn't knew who was writing them, or where why we're coming
from because the Lebanon letter didn't match the person who wrote it. That day
she comes home and find another letters, guessing that is from the same person.
It contained three pages talking about philosophy and Ancient Greece
philosophers. That night she had a philosophical discussion with her mother but
she believed that Sophie, her daughter, was taking drugs.
"Wasn't it odd that she didn't know who she was? And wasn't it unreasonable that she hadn't been allowed to have any say in what she would look like?" (Gaarder 6)
This quote can show us that is almost impossible describe who
you are, as Sophie she views herself different because she knows her. While
others just view and judge her physical appearance. As well in the question of
the world is way harder to understand because we just have theories on how the
world was created, but we don't have the truth.
"Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport." (Gaarder 14)
In this quote we can find out what Sophie do in her free time,
that is spend alone in a corner at her house making philosophical thoughts and
thinking about her life.
In the next chapters I believe Sophie will find out who is the
person who is sending her the he anonymous letters and she will do anything to meet
him because she loves mysteries and solving things.
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